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LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE.
[1824—1827.
'with a warm colour, to give the appearance of two metals.' Blake, on looking up one day at this fresco, which hung in his front room, candidly exclaimed, as one who was present tells me, 'I spoiled that—made it darker; it was much finer, but a Frenchwoman here (a fellow-lodger) didn't like it.' Ill advised, indeed, to alter colour at a fellow-lodger and Frenchwoman's suggestion! Blake's alterations were seldom improvements.
